22806 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 83 / Friday, April 30, 2010 / Notices 

ACTION: Notice of a proposed bulletin. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces that 

GSA is posting online a proposed FTR 

bulletin that contains the data 

dictionary that large Federal agencies 

must use in collecting data regarding 

employee relocation and in reporting 

such data to GSA. Proposed GSA 

Bulletin FTR 10–XXX may be viewed on 

GSA’s Web site at http://www.gsa.gov/ 

relopolicy. By this Notice, GSA is 

seeking comment on the proposed 

bulletin. After a review of the comments 

received, a final bulletin will be posted 

on the GSA Web site and will be 

announced in the Federal Register. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before June 1, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

identified by Proposed GSA Bulletin 

FTR 10–XXX, by any of the following 

methods: 

• Regulations.gov: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Submit comments 

via the Federal eRulemaking portal by 

inputting ‘‘Proposed GSA Bulletin FTR 

10–XXX’’ under the heading ‘‘Enter 

Keyword or ID’’ and selecting ‘‘Search.’’ 

Select the link ‘‘Submit a Comment’’ that 

corresponds with ‘‘Proposed GSA 

Bulletin FTR 10–XXX.’’ Follow the 

instructions provided at the ‘‘Submit a 

Comment’’ screen. Please include your 

name, company name (if any), and 

‘‘Proposed GSA Bulletin FTR 10–XXX’’ 

on your attached document. 

• Fax: 202–501–4067. 

• Mail: General Services 

Administration, Regulatory Secretariat 

(MVCB), 1800 F Street, NW., Room 

4041, ATTN: Hada Flowers, 

Washington, DC 20405. 

Instructions: Please submit comments 

only and cite Proposed GSA Bulletin 

FTR 10–XXX in all correspondence 

related to this case. All comments 

received will be posted without change 

to http://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal and/or business 

confidential information provided. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information, contact Mr. Henry 

Maury, Office of Governmentwide 

Policy (M), Office of Travel, 

Transportation, and Asset Management 

(MT), General Services Administration 

at (202) 208–7928 or via e-mail at 

henry.maury@gsa.gov. 

Dated: April 16, 2010. 

Becky Rhodes, 

Deputy Associate Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2010–10206 Filed 4–29–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6820–14–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

[Document Identifier: OS–0990–0313] 

Agency Information Collection 

Request; 60-Day Public Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS. 

In compliance with the requirement 

of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Office of the Secretary (OS), Department 

of Health and Human Services, is 

publishing the following summary of a 

proposed information collection request 

for public comment. Interested persons 

are invited to send comments regarding 

this burden estimate or any other aspect 

of this collection of information, 

including any of the following subjects: 

(1) The necessity and utility of the 

proposed information collection for the 

proper performance of the agency’s 

functions; (2) the accuracy of the 

estimated burden; (3) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (4) the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology to minimize the information 

collection burden. To obtain copies of 

the supporting statement and any 

related forms for the proposed 

paperwork collections referenced above, 

e-mail your request, including your 

address, phone number, OMB number, 

and OS document identifier, to 

Sherette.funncoleman@hhs.gov, or call 

the Reports Clearance Office on (202) 

690–6162. Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collections must be directed 

to the OS Paperwork Clearance Officer 

at the above e-mail address within 60 

days. 

Proposed Project: National Blood 

Collection and Utilization Survey— 

Extension—OMB No. 0990–0313—The 

Office of the Advisory Committee on 

Blood Safety and Availability. 

Abstract: The NBCUS is a biennial 

survey of the blood collection and 

utilization community to produce 

reliable and accurate estimates of 

national and regional collections, 

utilization and safety of all blood 

products. 

The objective of the NBCUS is to 

produce reliable and accurate estimates 

of national and regional collections, 

utilization, and safety of all blood 

products—red blood cells, fresh frozen 

plasma, and platelets, as well as related 

cellular therapy products. This survey 

will significantly improve the federal 

government’s capacity to understand the 

dynamics of blood supply, safety and 

availability, and to provide a 

quantitative basis for assessing strategic 

and regulatory agendas. An important 

purpose of the 2011 survey is to help 

the federal government continue to 

monitor trends in blood availability 

since a variety of factors have come to 

play that have reduced the number of 

people eligible to give blood and, as 

stated in the evolving National Strategic 

Plan for Blood, this information is 

critical to ensure an adequate supply of 

safe blood in the United States. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN TABLE

Type of respondent Number of respondents 

Number of responses per 

respondent 

Average burden hours per 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

Hospitals, blood collection centers, cord blood banks .................................... 3,000 1 1 3,000 


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Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 83 / Friday, April 30, 2010 / Notices 22807 

Terry Nicolosi, 

Office of the Secretary, Paperwork Reduction 

Act Reports Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2010–10085 Filed 4–29–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4150–41–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Implementation of Section 5001 of the 

American Recovery and Reinvestment 

Act of 2009 (Pub. L. 111–5) for 

Adjustments to the Second Quarter of 

Fiscal Year 2010 Federal Medical 

Assistance Percentage Rates for 

Federal Matching Shares for Medicaid 

and Title IV–E Foster Care, Adoption 

Assistance and Guardianship 

Assistance Programs 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, DHHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice provides the 

adjusted Federal Medical Assistance 

Percentage (FMAP) rates for the second 

quarter of Fiscal Year 2010 (FY10) as 

required under Section 5001 of the 

American Recovery and Reinvestment 

Act of 2009 (ARRA). Section 5001 of the 

ARRA provides for temporary increases 

in the FMAP rates to provide fiscal 

relief to States and to protect and 

maintain State Medicaid and certain 

other assistance programs in a period of 

economic downturn. The increased 

FMAP rates apply during a recession 

adjustment period that is defined in 

ARRA as the period beginning October 

1, 2008 and ending December 31, 2010. 

DATES: Effective Date: These percentages 

are effective for the quarter beginning 

January 1, 2010 through March 31, 2010. 

A. Background 

The FMAP is used to determine the 

amount of Federal matching for 

specified State expenditures for 

assistance payments under programs 

under the Social Security Act (‘‘the 

Act’’). Sections 1905(b) and 

1101(a)(8)(B) of the Act require the 

Secretary of Health and Human Services 

to publish the FMAP rates each year. 

The Secretary calculates the percentages 

using formulas in sections 1905(b) and 

1101(a)(8)(B), and statistics from the 

Department of Commerce of average 

income per person in each State and for 

the Nation as a whole. The percentages 

must be within the upper and lower 

limits given in section 1905(b) of the 

Act. The percentages to be applied to 

the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, 

the Virgin Islands, Guam, American 

Samoa, and the Northern Mariana 

Islands are specified separately in the 

Act, and thus are not based on the 

statutory formula that determines the 

percentages for the 50 States. 

Section 1905(b) of the Act specifies 

the formula for calculating the FMAP as 

follows: 

The FMAP for any State shall be 100 per 

centum less the State percentage; and the 

State percentage shall be that percentage 

which bears the same ratio to 45 per centum 

as the square of the per capita income of such 

State bears to the square of the per capita 

income of the continental United States 

(including Alaska) and Hawaii; except that 

(1) the FMAP shall in no case be less than 

50 per centum or more than 83 per centum, 

and (2) the FMAP for Puerto Rico, the Virgin 

Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, 

and American Samoa shall be 50 per centum. 

Section 4725 of the Balanced Budget 

Act of 1997 amended section 1905(b) to 

provide that the FMAP for the District 

of Columbia for purposes of titles XIX 

(Medicaid) and XXI (CHIP) shall be 70 

percent. The Medicare Improvements 

for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 

(MIPPA) (Pub. L. 110–275) amended the 

FMAP applied to the District of 

Columbia for maintenance payments 

under title IV–E programs to make it 

consistent with the 70 percent Medicaid 

match rate. 

Section 5001 of Division B of the 

ARRA provides for a temporary increase 

in FMAP rates for Medicaid and title 

IV–E Foster Care, Adoption Assistance 

and Guardianship Assistance programs. 

The purpose of the increases to the 

FMAP rates is to provide fiscal relief to 

States and to protect and maintain State 

Medicaid and certain other assistance 

programs in a period of economic 

downturn, referred to as the ‘‘recession 

adjustment period.’’ The recession 

adjustment period is defined as the 

period beginning October 1, 2008 and 

ending December 31, 2010. 

B. Calculation of the Increased FMAP 

Rates Under ARRA 

Section 5001 of the ARRA specifies 

that the FMAP rates shall be temporarily 

increased for the following: (1) 

Maintenance of FMAP rates for FY09, 

FY10, and first quarter of FY11, so that 

the FMAP rate will not decrease from 

the prior year, determined by using as 

the FMAP rate for the current year the 

greater of any prior fiscal year FMAP 

rates between 2008–2010 or the rate 

calculated for the current fiscal year; (2) 

in addition to any maintenance 

increase, the application of an increase 

in each State’s FMAP of 6.2 percentage 

points; and (3) an additional percentage 

point increase based on the State’s 

increase in unemployment during the 

recession adjustment period. The 

resulting increased FMAP cannot 

exceed 100 percent. Each State’s FMAP 

will be recalculated each fiscal quarter 

beginning October 2008. Availability of 

certain components of the increased 

FMAP is conditioned on States meeting 

statutory programmatic requirements, 

such as the maintenance of effort 

requirement, which are not part of the 

calculation process. 

Expenditures for which the increased 

FMAP is not available under title XIX 

include expenditures for 

disproportionate share hospital 

payments, certain eligibility expansions, 

services received through an IHS or 

Tribal facility (which are already paid at 

a rate of 100 percent and therefore not 

subject to increase), and expenditures 

that are paid at an enhanced FMAP rate. 

The increased FMAP is available for 

expenditures under part E of title IV 

(including Foster Care, Adoption 

Assistance and Guardianship Assistance 

programs) only to the extent of a 

maintenance increase (hold harmless), if 

any, and the 6.2 percentage point 

increase. The increased FMAP does not 

apply to other parts of title IV, including 

part D (Child Support Enforcement 

Program). 

For title XIX purposes only, for each 

qualifying State with an unemployment 

rate that has increased at a rate above 

the statutory threshold percentage, 

ARRA provides additional relief above 

the general 6.2 percentage point 

increase in FMAP through application 

of a separate increase calculation. For 

those States, the FMAP for each 

qualifying State is increased by the 

number of percentage points equal to 

the product of the State matching 

percentage (as calculated under section 

1905(b) and adjusted if necessary for the 

maintenance of FMAP without 

reduction from the prior year, and after 

applying half of the 6.2 percentage point 

general increase in the Federal 

percentage) and the applicable percent 

determined from the State 

unemployment increase percentage for 

the quarter. 

The unemployment increase 

percentage for a calendar quarter is 

equal to the number of percentage 

points (if any) by which the average 

monthly unemployment rate for the 

State in the most recent previous 3- 

consecutive-month period for which 

data are available exceeds the lowest 

average monthly unemployment rate for 

the State for any 3-consecutive-month 

period beginning on or after January 1, 

2006. A State qualifies for additional 

relief based on an increase in 

unemployment if that State’s 

unemployment increase percentage is at 

least 1.5 percentage points. 

The applicable percent is: (1) 5.5 

percent if the State unemployment 


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